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BP creates another fine mess as it bars Deepwater protestershttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/apr/17/bp-annual-meeting-deepwater-protesters
When the oil company refused to let five US activists into its annual meeting, it rubbed salt in the wounds of the Gulf of Mexico disaster<p>At the height of last year's oil-spattered summer, the gloomiest doom-mongers predicted BP would be bankrupt by now. But on Wednesday Britain's biggest company will reach the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster which killed 11 men, fouled hundreds of miles of coastline, cost at least $20bn (£12bn) and turned BP into one of the most hated enterprises in America.</p><p>You would have thought a few tough lessons would have sunk in, but BP marked the run-up to this milestone by scoring another perfectly executed own goal. The company barred five gulf coast activists from entering its annual meeting on Thursday, even though they had travelled from Louisiana and Texas and had legitimate paperwork entitling them to speak as proxy representatives for shareholders.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/apr/17/bp-annual-meeting-deepwater-protesters">Continue reading...</a>BPBP oil spillBob DudleyCarl-Henric SvanbergOilOil and gas companiesEnergy industryOilPollutionEnvironmental activismOil spillsEnvironmentBusinessProtestSat, 16 Apr 2011 23:08:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/apr/17/bp-annual-meeting-deepwater-protestersPhotograph: Stefan Rousseau/PAGulf Coast shrimp farmer Diane Wilson, who daubed herself with oil when she tried to enter the annual meeting, wanted to present BP directors with a 'Black Planet Award'. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PAPhotograph: Stefan Rousseau/PAGulf Coast shrimp farmer Diane Wilson, who daubed herself with oil when she tried to enter the annual meeting, wanted to present BP directors with a 'Black Planet Award'. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PAAndrew Clark2011-04-16T23:08:00ZBP's behaviour was shameful. But it wasn't the only one to blame for the gulf disasterhttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/oct/31/bp-gulf-disaster-blame
The financial consequences for BP after the Deepwater Horizon spill will rightly be heavy. But as the investigation progresses, other parties' culpability is coming to light<p>With a perennially quizzical frown and soft Mississippi drawl, BP's new boss, Bob Dudley, has a manner more akin to a baffled mathematician than a corporate battler. But he's changed the mood music at Britain's biggest company, which is growing confident of escaping a costly finding of "gross negligence" over its disastrous gulf oil spill.</p><p>Six months have passed since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana, killing 11 people and causing an underwater gush of oil that tarnished beaches, wildlife and livelihoods along hundreds of miles of American shoreline. The White House wasted no time in naming BP as the "responsible party" and the more excitable of Wall Street's analysts sounded dire warnings that the company was destined for bankruptcy, or at least permanent banishment from business in the US.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/oct/31/bp-gulf-disaster-blame">Continue reading...</a>BPBP oil spillOil and gas companiesOilOil spillsBusinessOilWorld newsUS newsPollutionEnvironmentSat, 30 Oct 2010 23:08:59 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/oct/31/bp-gulf-disaster-blamePhotograph: Gerald Herbert/APWildlife researchers releasing sea turtles affected by oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill back into the Gulf of Mexico earlier this month. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/APPhotograph: Gerald Herbert/APWildlife researchers releasing sea turtles affected by oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill back into the Gulf of Mexico earlier this month. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/APAndrew Clark2010-10-30T23:08:59Z